Heroes of Silver Moon

Watching his father leave with the army, Simon felt a little melancholy.

His father made a huge gamble and put the fate of the entire Hawke family in his hands, but he still had no results.

One year has passed since the four years of college, and in the next three years, it seems that I have to work hard.

The crown prince came to Simon's side and patted Simon's shoulder lightly, as if to comfort Simon.

As a result, the next sentence directly made Simon break his defense in an instant: "Hey, boy, don't be melancholy, you have to make money for our royal family first."

"Wori", Simon's expression suddenly twisted.

Back in the courtyard of the Royal Capital, at Simon's request, Sir Ilsa, the vice president of the Royal Chamber of Commerce, rented a cheap courtyard on the outskirts of the Royal Capital and equipped Simon with a dozen dexterous workers.

Then, Simon began to restore the papermaking technique on Blue Star little by little.

He first asked these workers to prepare some wood for his yard, and then soaked all the wood in clean water.

After completing the first step, he asked Sir Ilsa for carpenters and masons.

Immediately, according to his instructions, several carpenters made a large wooden barrel half a person's height surrounded by three people.

The mason, on the other hand, followed his instructions and used stones and mud to build a fire cave dwelling slightly larger than the big wooden barrel.

The shape of this fire cave is like a wooden bowl buckled on the ground, and unlike the brick kiln for firing bluestone bricks, the top of the cave is open.

When these two things were done, Simon pinched the wood soaked in clear water and found that the wood had almost softened.

Fishing out all the wood from the clear water, Simon ordered the swift workers to smash the softened wood with a mallet.

Pour the shattered wood into a large wooden barrel, and then pour a large bag of lime powder, and Simon asked people to move the large wooden barrel to the fire cave dwelling together.

The workers set up wooden ladders, and finally poured buckets of clean water into the big wooden bucket.

The clean water and lime began to react with heat. After confirming that the poured clean water had overflowed the wood, the workers quickly put the lid on the large wooden barrel.

In order to prevent the cover from falling off, Simon also asked people to put a few stones on the cover to press it down.

After all this was done, Simon made another fire in the fire cave.

Seeing what Simon did, Sir Ilsa's eyelids twitched, and he always felt that this picture had a sense of déjà vu.

By the way, isn't that how cooks cook things when they cook?

Sir Ilsa finally remembered where he had seen this scene.

"Hey, can this really make cheap paper?" Sir Ilsa's face was full of disbelief.

"Don't worry, it's all right," Simon smiled and held out his thumb.

The high cost of paper has always been the nightmare of all mages and scholars.

An ordinary book costs only two or three silver coins to make, plus the profit that the merchants want to make, a finished book will cost at least five silver coins.

Think about it, the average annual income of an ordinary family is only about four gold coins.

The high cost of books is directly doomed, and things like knowledge have nothing to do with the common people.

Let's talk about the lower-level nobles, let's take the example of the Xivir knight of the Hawke family.

With the estate of the Xavier family and the official position that Xavier holds, Xavier can have an income of about 50 gold coins a year.

The nobles had a lot of expenses, so Xiwell had at most fifteen gold coins left over each year.

For fifteen gold coins, you can only buy thirty ordinary books at most.

Xi Weier's income was in the middle of the ranks of the lower nobles, neither too much nor too little.

Therefore, such things as knowledge are difficult even for lower-level nobles. You must know that there are some retainers in the Hawke family who don't even know the words.

Throughout the ages, there have been countless alchemists throughout the main continent who wanted to make cheaper paper through alchemy, but they all failed.

Because, as long as magic is involved in the manufactured items, the price will definitely increase.

However, in this world accustomed to extraordinary power, how can people put their thoughts outside of magic?

Don't be kidding, cheap paper can't be made by magic, can it be made without magic?

Sir Ilsa, therefore, had always regarded Simon's cheap paper as a joke.

But anyway, it was His Majesty the King who asked him to fully cooperate with Simon. Even if he failed in the end, he was not the one to bear the king's anger.

After soaking the smashed wood in lime water and steaming it over medium heat for eight days, Simon ordered people to extinguish the flames in the fire cave, and then several workers set up ladders and worked together to move the large wooden barrel to the ground.

When the large wooden barrel was opened, a pungent smell of lime immediately made everyone cover their noses.

Use a modified filter to fish out the boiled wood in the large wooden barrel, pour out the lime water in the large wooden barrel~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Then Simon ordered someone to rinse the wood with clean water.

After rinsing, the wood was put into a large wooden barrel, lime water was poured in, and it was placed on a fire cave for cooking.

After cooking and rinsing every day for more than ten days, the wood was finally gradually decomposed.

Let the workers make a stone mortar for pounding things, and tap the raw materials that have been decomposed into **** with a mallet to form a muddy surface.

Put this pile of batter-like things into a wooden barrel and mix it with an appropriate amount of water. After stirring evenly with a clean wooden stick, several barrels of pulp are finished.

Pour these buckets of pulp into the stone tank, and then Simon picked up a square filter and copied it into the pulp in this pool.

The moisture in the pulp seeped out along the filter screen, and then a layer of paper film appeared on the filter screen.

Simon held the filter with a stern expression, and came to a half-person-high wooden table.

On the wooden table, a smooth and flat wooden board with a thickness of only half a centimeter has already been prepared, and the filter is buckled on the wooden board, and the paper film on the filter falls on the wooden board.

Press another wooden board of the same size, which is also smooth and flat, onto this wooden board smoothly to squeeze out the excess water, and Simon heaved a sigh of relief.

Mu De, if he hadn't studied history, he wouldn't have been able to reproduce this papermaking technique.

"Continue," Simon said calmly to the workers.

Insert the filter screen into the pulp, filter out most of the water, and then buckle the formed paper film on a smooth and flat wooden board.

When Simon gets tired of working, he will switch to a worker, and when the first worker is tired, the second worker will do it.

In less than half a day, the pool of pulp was diluted, and the paper film could no longer be copied.